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Subject Researchers are working on a pill for loneliness, as studies suggest the condition is worse than obesity

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Original Message Headlines suggest we’ve become consumed by loneliness, a new generation of Eleanor Rigbys half a century after the Beatles lament for the lonely: Why are 30somethings lonely? What You Need to Know about the Loneliness Epidemic. Loneliness is a human catastrophe. A recent Angus Reid Institute survey found that nearly half of Canadians sometimes or often feel alone. In the U.S., the number of Americans who feel they have no one with whom they can speak to has tripled since 1985.

“God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of ‘parties’ with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear,” Sylvia Plath wrote in journals published nearly four decades ago. Today, people across the West are reporting higher levels of persistent loneliness than ever before.

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